Raytech Corporation v. Earl White

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• reviewing district court’s decision to apply collateral estoppel for abuse of discretion
• “We review for abuse of discretion whether the district court properly applied the doctrine of collateral estoppel.”
• “To defeat a finding of identity of the issues … the difference in the applicable legal standards must be ‘substantial.’”
• “even if all four requirements of collateral estoppel are met, changes in “controlling” facts, that is, facts “essential to a judgment” will render collateral estoppel inapplicable in a subsequent action raising the same issues”
• “even if all four requirements of collateral estoppel are met, changes in “controlling” facts, that is, facts “essential to a judgment” will render collateral estoppel inapplicable in a subsequent action raising the same issues”
• the differences in the standards must be “substantial”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).